No current agreement exists on how many of the evacuees met the criteria to be an Ilois, and thus be an indigenous person at the time of their removal, but the UK and Mauritian governments agreed in 1972 that 426 families, numbering 1, 151 individuals were due compensation payments as exiled Ilois.

In 1998, an ad hoc CCAR committee on Human Sexuality issued its majority report ( 11 to 1, 1 abstention ) which stated that the holiness within a Jewish marriage " may be present in committed same gender relationships between two Jews and that these relationships can serve as the foundation of stable Jewish families, thus adding strength to the Jewish community.

Each family then solemnly lit its hearth from the common flame, thus bonding the families of the village together.

We can thus understand the localisation of sub-genera, genera, and families ; and how it is that under different latitudes, for instance in South America, the inhabitants of the plains and mountains, of the forests, marshes, and deserts, are in so mysterious a manner linked together by affinity, and are likewise linked to the extinct beings which formerly inhabited the same continent ... On these same principles, we can understand, as I have endeavoured to show, why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants, but of these a great number should be endemic or peculiar ; ...

*: The alternating groups may be considered as groups of Lie type over the field with one element, which unites this family with the next, and thus all families of non-abelian finite simple groups may be considered to be of Lie type.

Similarly, laws mandating the use of seat belts are argued to save considerable amounts of death and serious injury, thus offering a net benefit to society, since treating the injured and supporting the families of the injured or dead has a cost for insurance or social security systems paid for by the general population.

All members of a peer's family are commoners too ; the British system thus differs fundamentally from continental European ones, where entire families, rather than individuals, were ennobled.

Thousands more Hmong people, mainly former soldiers and their families, escaped to remote mountain regions — particularly Phou Bia, the highest ( and thus least accessible ) mountain peak in Laos.

As with the canons, differences in the observance of rule gave rise to two types: the canoness regular, who lives in a religious house, taking the traditional religious vows, and the secular canoness, which was primarily a way of leading a pious life by daughters of aristocratic families who did not wish to take religious vows, and thus remained free to own property and leave to marry, should they choose.

A family film is a film genre that is designed to appeal to a variety of age groups and, thus, families.

Matriarchy has even been found where a quarter of Black families in the United States were headed by single women ; thus, families composing a substantial minority of a substantial minority could be enough for the latter to constitute a matriarchy within a larger non-matriarchal society ( though many scholars would prefer the term " matrifocal " to " matriarchal ").

Codes duello regulate dueling and thus help prevent vendettas between families and other social factions.

The Connecticut government and Massachusetts Bay government began to quarrel about land, thus delaying the migration process of English families to the Mystic River.

Samuel Dudley and Winthrop ’ s daughter Mary were married, thus Brothers Rocks were so named because of this marriage of families.

Although over 100 Swiss families moved to the Gruetli area in the 1870s, many were disappointed by the land's poor quality and relative isolation, and thus relocated to nearby cities.

It is argued that many African and Asian dairy, tomato and poultry farmers cannot keep up with cheap competition from Europe, thus their incomes can no longer provide for their families.

The castle is thus the ancient seat of the Earls of Wemyss and their families.

The ox teams which pulled the ploughs were very expensive, and thus tended to be shared among the families of a village.

This enabled more and more families to be economically independent, and thus to own their own home.

However, during the past few years ( 2000 – 2010 ) many migrant families have moved from London boroughs such as Hackney and Peckham, and settled in Basildon, thus adding to Basildon's growing rate in multi-cultured families and communities.

Some families may live under one roof by choice and it is possible that Hispanic people may have different cultural standards than other population groups, thus allowing them to be more comfortable living with extended family underneath the same roof.

Adeline Mowbray uses frank language to deliver the moral that the desires of women as much as those of men can override their families ' wishes and thus jeopardise their future

Nearby Issyk Kul Lake was used by the Soviet military as a testing site for torpedo propulsion and guidance systems, and Karakol was thus home to a sizable population of military personnel and their families.

We recognize something akin to Norns, spirits who decide destinies of men ; to the seeresses, who could protect men in battle with their spells ; to the powerful female guardian spirits attached to certain families, bringing luck to youth under their protection ; even to certain women who armed themselves and fought like men, for whom there is some historical evidence from the regions round the Black Sea.

We have two business houses ... we have ten families living here.

We were among the first members of the colony to arrive at the station of an unfinished railroad … There was a good hotel, well and comfortably furnished, one or two stores neatly furnished and already stocked with goods, several other in process of erection … The streets, scarcely to be defined as such, were full of prairie schooners, containing families waiting until masters could suit themselves with “ claims ,” the women pursuing their housewifely avocations meanwhile – some having cooking stoves in their wagons, others using gypsy fires to do their culinary work ; all seeming happy and hopeful.

Duncan Smith said: " We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology whose purpose was summed up in 1998 by Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: " We believe that a psychology of positive human functioning will arise, which achieves a scientific understanding and effective interventions to build thriving individuals, families, and communities.

We offer our sincere apologies and condolences to their families.

We must continue to fight against discriminatory marriage amendments and work toward the day when all American families are treated equally.

We sought to bring the standards we apply to the prime space to the subprime market with our industry partners primarily to expand our services to underserved families.

" Signed by more than sixty descendants during the fourth Hatfield-McCoy Festival, the truce was touted as a proclamation of peace, saying " We ask by God's grace and love that we be forever remembered as those that bound together the hearts of two families to form a family of freedom in America.

Doi's status plummeted as her earlier statements telling abductee families to " get over it " were shown on television, as was Doi's comment in Pyongyang in 1987 at the birthday party of Kim Il-sung: " We JSP members respect the glorious success of DPRK under the great leader Kim Il Sung.

We now know this additional name variously as the second name, last name, family name, surnames or occasionally the byname, and this natural tendency was accelerated by the Norman tradition of using surnames that were fixed and hereditary within individual families.

We promote strong families and vibrant communities.

We will show that people ’ s concerns about their jobs and their families ’ futures are at the centre of our concerns here in Parliament .”

We must shape a trade policy that meets the needs of working families and ends the economic race to the bottom .”

We proposed that the AFL-CIO embark on a new course of action that would not only protect our existing Teamsters members and their families but lead to thousands of new working men and women to have the opportunity to organize into a strong union that would give them the chance to achieve the American dream to own their own home, send their kids to college and plan a strong retirement.

We don't have anything to do with the Togolese and we present our condolences to the African families and the Togo government.

Tammy Groves, solicitor for the families, said: ' We have been denied any inquiry in the US ; there have been no reprimands ; and the pilots have not been named.

On April 24, 2007, Pete Geren, acting secretary of the Army stated " We as an Army failed in our duty to the Tillman family, the duty we owe to all the families of our fallen soldiers: Give them the truth, the best we know it, as fast as we can.

" He also stated: " We recognise that the board has a major responsibility in carrying out our duty in holding the PSNI to account in the interests of justice for the Omagh families.

According to the flamenco guitarist Juan Serrano, this was because flamenco was considered disreputable and they did not want to embarrass their families: ' We have to start with the history of the gypsies in Spain.

We ’ re not going to let NOM get away with distracting from and distorting the truth about our families and the protections that we need .”

We must pass over his studies in anatomy, pursued gratuitously by the kindness of a medical man, and his introductions to families of refinement and culture in Liverpool.

We need John Kerry as president of the United States of America, because he will fight for working families, and help America to be what it ought to be.